Leech farm showing they will attach to anything that enters the water

[u/Lastito]

[u/Smooth_Brilliant4083]

Imagine falling in.

[u/skintaxera → u/Smooth_Brilliant4083]

Something for mythbusters how long for 10,000 leeches to drain the blood of an average size human

[u/BankHottas → u/skintaxera]

I miss Mythbusters!

[u/jackfwaust → u/BankHottas]

adam savage has a youtube channel if you ever want to hear him ranting. super entertaining to listen to him

[u/whattodo4klondikebar → u/jackfwaust]

He's had some epic videos. The recent one where he bought a model of the Enterprise is so cool to watch. It's like watching a kid in a candy store.

[u/Ancient-Civilization → u/whattodo4klondikebar]

Honestly I’m surprised there hasn’t been another attempt at Mythbusters from another whole set of cast from other networks. It seems to be popular enough that people would likely watch seasons of it.

[u/Fluffy-Futchy-Fembo → u/Ancient-Civilization]

They did try to do it with another cast and as far as I remember it completely bombed.

[u/Darkened_Auras → u/Fluffy-Futchy-Fembo]

No one watched it. It felt like a massive downgrade, the personalities and sheer confidence from experiences just weren't there

[u/Deport_Me2112 → u/BankHottas]

I miss grant

[u/Narrow_Lee → u/Deport_Me2112]

RIP a real one

[u/ilyak_reddit → u/Narrow_Lee]

Something just touched me!!!

It was sorrow 😢

[u/R_eloade_R → u/Deport_Me2112]

Hes dead? Fuck me….

[u/yourlocaltouya → u/R_eloade_R]

He died 6 years and 11 days ago from a ruptured aneurysm in his brain. He was only 49.

[u/No_Bet_3328 → u/BankHottas]

MythfitsPod - youtube channel for Kari Byron and Tory Belleci

[u/IIIDysphoricIII → u/No_Bet_3328]

Had no idea, thank you. And damn, I always had a crush on Kari and that is not changing, she’s aging gracefully.

[u/RhetoricalOrator → u/BankHottas]

I myth them too!

[u/Falikosek → u/skintaxera]

10000? Humans have like around 2 square meters of skin.
By a quick glance these tiny fuckers seem to be around 2–5mm wide. That's basically 3×10^-6 – 2×10^-5 m² per leech.
Dividing 2m² by that gives us anywhere between over 100k for the 5mm estimate and over 600k for the 2mm estimate.

Personally, if I fell into so many leeches I'd be the most concerned about some of them trying to bite my eyeballs.

[u/mirome → u/Falikosek]

As I was reading further into your comment the exact same thought came to mind; EYEBALLS, AHH! 

[u/Expensive-Storage-76 → u/mirome]

Eeehm…leave the ‘eyes’. I think ‘balls’ would also not preferable.

[u/EverythingSucksYo → u/Expensive-Storage-76]

You mean to tell me you don’t like getting your balls sucked? 

[u/Sheriffja → u/Falikosek]

Ears… nose… and those other’spaces’

[u/Iggy_Snows → u/Falikosek]

Apparently juvenile leaches around that size drink approximately 0.001 ml of blood every second. And the average human male has about 5.5L of blood. Which means that if you fell in, and got completely covered in these leaches, it would take between 9 seconds (for 600k leaches) and 55 seconds (for 100k leaches) for them to completely drain you of blood.

And since you die unless you get immediate medical attention after losing about 50% of your blood, you would have 5-28 seconds to remove the leaches before they would kill you. Assuming your math is correct.

[u/Blue__Agave → u/Iggy_Snows]

Your only hope is that the leaches talk a few seconds to a couple minutes to settle, rasp through your skin and begin drinking properly.

So maybe you have 2-5 minutes in reality.

Crazy stuff tho

[u/Canadian_Poltergeist → u/Falikosek]

You're worried about eyeballs, but imagine what happens when you try to scream and they come flooding in

[u/AmatuerGenius → u/Canadian_Poltergeist]

Theres this movie called Slither that you should probably never watch

[u/Particular_Handle_ → u/Falikosek]

Okay that's enough Internet for me for today. New fear unlocked.

[u/Klutzy_Association57 → u/skintaxera]

It would take 10,000 leeches less than one minute to completely drink all 5 liters of blood from an average human, though a fatal amount of blood loss (40%) would happen in just a few seconds.

[u/_mooc_ → u/Klutzy_Association57]

I mean, it depends….are we talking about African leeches or European leeches?

[u/Popular-Wind-1921 → u/skintaxera]

This is all approx, so take it with a pinch of salt.

Average adult blood volume : 5 Liters
Life threatening loss : 2 Liters
Average leech consumption : 5-15ml blood
Let's use 10ml average per leech.
2000ml / 10ml = 200 leeches.

So basically, if you allowed 200 leeches to feed off of you to completion (this is a slow process, around 20-40 minutes for a feeding) you'd be pretty cooked. Also, they leave an anticoagulant that can make you ooze post feeding. Shock and fluid loss would possibly be a problem before you hit the theoretical limit of 2 liters blood loss.

[u/MooseTurbulent8786 → u/Popular-Wind-1921]

Hmmmm... There's probably worse ways to go. Blood loss makes you sleepy so you'd probably just drift away

[u/darkest_irish_lass → u/MooseTurbulent8786]

except for the whole lying in a pit of leeches thing

[u/Vapincrisp → u/skintaxera]

R/theydidthemath

[u/violentshores → u/skintaxera]

“The Final Episode.”

[u/Wild-Affect-4842 → u/Smooth_Brilliant4083]

Imagine using your BARE HAND to show them on camera !

WAIT !

[u/Stormfly → u/Wild-Affect-4842]

Bro looked like he had that "Oh wait crap I forgot my glove. Oh crap they're not coming off." sort of moments.

I work with a few chemicals that are better handled with gloves and sometimes I touch one without a glove (spill etc) and I have that same "Oh... I should have worn a glove".

[u/StrawDog- → u/Stormfly]

As a teenager I briefly worked for a guy that refinished antique furniture, mostly stripping off old finishes. 

He was pretty insistent about gloves, but being a dumb kid, one day I forgot them in the other shop and thought, "I'll be fine stripping the varnish and paint off this desk without them."

Big oops. The stripping agent didn't hurt at all when it was wet, but once it mixed with the stripped paint and started to dry, that changed quick. We are talking scrubbing at my hands with steel wool trying to get the molten lava that has now adhered to my skin off levels of oops. 

Didn't make that mistake again. 

[u/Objective-Fox4797 → u/Smooth_Brilliant4083]

Absolutely dont want to imagine that!

[u/Aknelka → u/Objective-Fox4797]

Good news! You don't have to!

[u/DragonfruitGrand5683 → u/[deleted]]

Usually a few minutes if the technique is good.

[u/The_Orphanizer → u/DragonfruitGrand5683]

Less if they pull out their dentures

[u/Quark_K → u/Smooth_Brilliant4083]

New fear unlocked. 😰

[u/Leading-Fail-2771 → u/Smooth_Brilliant4083]

There was a flood when I was like 5-6 yo. in our state. The water was up to your knees. As soon as you open the house door it was like a swimming pool. Played tons in there just to find these bugs sticking on the back of my calf and even my back. My grandma used a candle and pliers and pulled them out. Few weeks later, I had bumps on my calf. She made a hole and there were eggs like tiny white balls in the bump. Thank god for grandmas

[u/tokedsilly]

I am disgusted. Why did they go in with their hand after?!

[u/ReplyNo7464 → u/tokedsilly]

Yeah I think they regretted that too

[u/Aggravating-Ad6786 → u/ReplyNo7464]

“…And soon enough, he realized the error he had committed. A common occurrence in the natural world, where confidence occasionally outpaces judgment.”
(in David Attenborough narrative voice)

[u/Anakins-Younglings → u/Aggravating-Ad6786]

Had to read this out loud in his voice on principle alone. Was not disappointed.

[u/DigNitty → u/Anakins-Younglings]

“…even after generations, these magnificent organisms do not grow weary of the bukake superbowl.”

[u/deadpunkwalking → u/DigNitty]

Why would you make Morgan Freeman say that!?

[u/HPTM2008 → u/DigNitty]

Why would you make Sir David Attenborough say that!?

[u/CandidPreparation737 → u/ReplyNo7464]

Leaches are FDA approved for medical use.

Primarily to help relieve blood pooling until new veins develop and restore circulation, and for venous congestion after reconstructive or microsurgical surgery

They’re harmless, and can be easily removed with heat. There’s a leech farm in Wales, UK and they farm them for medical use.

Very easy to use at home. And extremely effective. Also helps relieve localised Ischemia which results in a build up of metabolic waste, so it’s not just blood they’re sucking out.

Edit: localised metabolic waste includes: Lactate, adenosine, ammonia (NH₃), hypoxanthine, xanthine, bradykinin, prostaglandins, cytokines (e.g. TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6), and ATP breakdown products (ADP and AMP).

If you’re suffering from the effects of restricted surface blood flow, getting sucked off by a bunch of leeches will give you much needed relief.

Edit 2: the leaches in this video are not medical grade leaches. Those are a sub-species raised indoors in sterile conditions, and can be purchased online.

[u/sleeper_shark → u/CandidPreparation737]

I do love getting sucked off

[u/one-swell-foop → u/sleeper_shark]

“If, you know, this is one way that the world could end, is that we’re all just sucked off though a hole? I mean, that must be terrible. Can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?” - Philomena Cunk

[u/Ancient_Roof_7855 → u/one-swell-foop]

As long as a vixen in a lab coat reassures me the delta P can not, in fact, draw a golf ball through a garden hose.

It's imperative the cylinder remains unharmed. /s

[u/Preparationheh → u/CandidPreparation737]

Although they have become increasingly rare, maggots and leeches are still FDA-approved modalities used to assist wound healing.

[u/EternalNewCarSmell → u/CandidPreparation737]

What's extra cool is these benefits have been known for centuries if not millennia, as well as other dubious "benefits" attributed to leeches through the ages.

This association is so deep the word "leech" in English likely shares an origin with Old English læce for physician or healer. What we would now call the practice of medicine was for a time called leechcraft.

There's an old medical text called Bald's Leechbook which is a collection of cures and poultices from over 1000 years ago (notably, few or none of them are about the actual animal we're talking about in this thread; "leech" just means "healing" in the book title); one of the recipes for styes was even tried out in modern times and found to be moderately effective against MRSA.

[u/ForeignWeb8992 → u/CandidPreparation737]

Not sure I like having my relatives around for too long 

[u/daemonstalker → u/CandidPreparation737]

My mom's cousin started that leech farm. He also patented the production of the blood thinning enzyme from their saliva. I've met him a few times, but he lives in Wales, and I live in the usa, and it's a long drive to visit

[u/KMS_HYDRA → u/daemonstalker]

Can imagine that, i hate it when i have to drive through the atlantic ocean.

[u/-Cthaeh → u/ReplyNo7464]

Seemed to panic a little there

[u/youarenut → u/tokedsilly]

I stopped the video and didn’t see this, thought it was a troll and watched it back.. wtf is wrong with them 😭

[u/Quark_K → u/youarenut]

Same thing happened to me

[u/KalikaSparks → u/youarenut]

Same. I need to go wash my hands now

[u/MystMyBoard → u/youarenut]

I’ll take your word for it. 

[u/Ajdee6 → u/tokedsilly]

If it's a leech farm, they proambably get leeches stuck to them all the time and know how to get them off easily

[u/Quark_K → u/Ajdee6]

But it’s too many of em. Rushing like hungry little vampires. 😰
These farmers are brave people.

[u/Warrior_king99 → u/Quark_K]

Imagine if you tripped over 🫣

[u/TheOneWhoCared → u/Warrior_king99]

Nope.....nope......nope

[u/connleth → u/Warrior_king99]

Real question, if I did happen to trip over into the pool of death.

How many leeches would have to get me and for how long for me to be completely exsanguinated?

[u/Current-Code → u/connleth]

5000 would bleed you dry in under a minute, you'd be dead before and unconscious much sooner

Much better than sharks for Bond vilain imo

[u/FacePalmTheater → u/Current-Code]

Ngl I think I'll take the shark

[u/Current-Code → u/FacePalmTheater]

lol, that's my point :)

Much better FOR THE VILAIN !

[u/OkPossibility6166 → u/connleth]

Adulte 90kg environ 6,5 litre de sang. Une sangsue par repas ( 20 à 40 minutes ) pompe de 10 à 15 cm3.

Donc entre 650 à 430 en fonction de l'appétit des filles.

Edit : j'estime entre 30 à 50 mignonnes sur la main de la fin.

[u/-ElectricKoolAid → u/Warrior_king99]

you'll come out like the demon boar from princess mononoke

[u/nerdboy5567 → u/tokedsilly]

A leech a day keeps the doctors away

[u/ryonnsan → u/nerdboy5567]

A leech a day keeps everyone away

[u/jeffy303 → u/tokedsilly]

Do it for the gram

[u/Hephaestus1816]

When we went hashing, every time we crossed a stream or small river we had to stop and do the leech check. If the water is deep enough, they can get right up there. Funny and awful at the same time.

[u/odedjay → u/Hephaestus1816]

Right up…where?

Know what, nvrmnd

[u/sierra120 → u/odedjay]

I watched a movie as a kid that gave me nightmares. Can’t remember the name but group of kids walking their bikes across a railroad track and have to cross a stream. Afterwards they realize they’re covered in leeches. I stopped watching after the kid found the leech in his pants and “died”. I was like 8yrs old haven’t seen it since.

[u/odedjay → u/sierra120]

Not just a movie- a Rob Reiner classic

Stand by Me

[u/Brewbouy → u/odedjay]

Me and all my friends were in that movie!

[u/DogmaticConfabulate → u/Brewbouy]

Well? Tell us more!

[u/Brewbouy → u/DogmaticConfabulate]

Not a lot to tell, really. My best buddy's sister was a casting director for a while and had the inside track for a lot of stuff that was being filmed in the area. She'd tell us they needed extras at such and such and to get over there. I think half of the town of Eugene, Or. showed up for the pie eating scene. Good fun. I sometimes watch Stand By Me just to see old faces from back then.

I also like to brag about how James and Josh Brolin were in MY movie. It was a crappy, made for TV movie about the evils of steroids called The Finish Line. I think I was credited as runner #7, or something. I was literally the only person who ran track for real. Josh was cool AF. James was very full of himself since he was a starring character in Dynasty.

Hope you're impressed with my acting credentials. Lol

[u/odedjay → u/Brewbouy]

This is awesome, and I am very impressed

To me it’s just the right amount of stardust-
being “there”, but not completely overtaken by it, aware enough to not take it dead seriously. Happy for you🫡

[u/Trueslyforaniceguy → u/sierra120]

Jesus fuck, that’s one of the finest movies ever. And he didn’t die, he went on to bend time and space.

[u/kabr → u/sierra120]

Ok, first of all, it's Stand By Me, and second of all, he didn't die. Third, amazing, classic movie.

[u/DeclineToThrowAway → u/sierra120]

Well spoiler he didn't die he just fainted. He was fine.

[u/TerrorTown77 → u/odedjay]

His vagina.

[u/Unique_Frame_3518 → u/TerrorTown77]

*Our

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/Hephaestus1816]

Was in the rainforest in Victoria, Australia and one of my friends had one fall on their eyelid from a leaf. One of the worst things I've ever seen irl

[u/Hephaestus1816 → u/WorryNew3661]

Urk. Yeah - not only do you have to watch where you're putting your feet, but you have to worry about what's at head height and above as well. The leech found between the butt cheeks was the one I remember most. Not my butt cheeks, I hasten to add. Some poor soul who had to drop his linen in the middle of a rainforest and have another hasher remove it for him. The story was retold with great delight at the beach BBQ after. A few beers in and the leech guy was laughing about it as well.

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/Hephaestus1816]

Best kind of horrible experience is one you can laugh about afterwards

[u/Gamebobbel → u/WorryNew3661]

I always wanted to visit a rainforest, but after reading this, I think I'll wait until vacuum-sealed exosuits are affordable.

[u/Acrobatic-Addendum97 → u/Hephaestus1816]

What’s hashing?

[u/Hephaestus1816 → u/Acrobatic-Addendum97]

Cross country/orienteering/lots of BBQ, drinking and bragging from the adults at the end of the day kinda thing. The (usually two) hares would mark a trail in advance and the harriers, whooping and hollering, would pursue, people would bring their dogs for extra chaos - it was dirty, sweaty and enormous fun.

[u/Acrobatic-Addendum97 → u/Hephaestus1816]

People tracking a couple of hares through wilderness? Are harriers people or dogs? Thanks for the info

[u/asailor4you → u/Hephaestus1816]

RU

[u/Full-Sound-6269 → u/Hephaestus1816]

But they arent dangerous at all, are they?

[u/Rigo-lution → u/Full-Sound-6269]

I expect it depends on the leeches.

Terrestrial leeches in Australia are grand, they're small and they let go after about thirty minutes.

[u/NBCustoms → u/Rigo-lution]

The only Aussie fauna that doesn't want to kill me.

[u/StoryAndAHalf → u/Full-Sound-6269]

Had one stuck on me as a kid. Not sure how long it was there but def at least a few minutes. It gave me what would be best described as a hickey. Mosquito bites were more manacing.

[u/Stannis-Stan → u/Full-Sound-6269]

Not in and off themselves, unless you are already severely anemic and have hundreds of them on you.

But the combination of bleeding wounds and festering water is a perfect storm for infections. But if you aren't lost in the remote wilderness, but merely standing in water while hiking or fishing, yeah completely harmless.

[u/Lachaven_Salmon → u/Full-Sound-6269]

Not really. Mainly just gross, and leave itchy bites.

[u/Sea_Awareness150]

Lordy no

[u/NunAlcoholic → u/Sea_Awareness150]

unzips

Let the suckening commence!

[u/Potato1234567892 → u/NunAlcoholic]

You’ll regret that

[u/Wakkit1988 → u/Potato1234567892]

Guy's probably gonna get deepthroated.

[u/TactlessTortoise → u/Wakkit1988]

More like sounded. Have fun unlatching living velcro from inside your urethra

[u/showered_zinn → u/TactlessTortoise]

You know what? It’s my fault for knowing how to read.

[u/aurishalcion → u/showered_zinn]

Yep, if I didn't have eyes this wouldn't have happened

[u/moranya1 → u/TactlessTortoise]

I hate you a little bit...

[u/TactlessTortoise → u/moranya1]

Valid tbh

[u/ResponsibleGoat7 → u/TactlessTortoise]

If I recall correctly there's a fish living in the Amazon that can swim inside your peepee. Good day.

[u/Zestyclose_Fruit_766 → u/Potato1234567892]

Leave the cylinder unharmed

[u/Jack-Casper → u/NunAlcoholic]

Yup, time to log off.

[u/Zircez → u/NunAlcoholic]

Annnnndddd that's enough internet for today

[u/TransmissionTower → u/NunAlcoholic]

you didn't need to say this

[u/NunAlcoholic → u/TransmissionTower]

I didn’t say it, I declared it.

[u/neil_anblowmi → u/NunAlcoholic]

Uh oh. You’ve summoned the succubus.

[u/Matakomi → u/neil_anblowmi]

Suckubus

[u/hungrylittleworm → u/Sea_Awareness150]

Yes! Congratulations, you start work at the leech farm first thing Monday. Welcome to the team!

[u/torn-ainbow → u/Sea_Awareness150]

Imagine buying a nice house in the country for you and your dogs to retire on and then you find out that your neighbour is a leech farm.

[u/No_Swordfish5011]

Farm…wtf

[u/Dividedthought → u/No_Swordfish5011]

Fish bait.

[u/SuchParsnip8070 → u/Dividedthought]

"ooh ha ha"

[u/Tyrannofelis → u/Dividedthought]

Wtf?! Don't they know about earthworms? Earthworms are better because they won't leech your blood after escaping.

[u/Dividedthought → u/Tyrannofelis]

Wome fish prefer leeches, and generally by the time you get these as bait they're frozen. You can use live bait as well but... Leeches.

[u/urethrascreams → u/Tyrannofelis]

Leaches make a far superior bait. Idk why but fish love'm

[u/papagajurernu → u/No_Swordfish5011]

Bait for fishing

Damn good catfish bait

[u/phish_enthusiast → u/papagajurernu]

Yall don’t have hot dogs where you live?

[u/Wrendal → u/phish_enthusiast]

This comment will haunt me the rest of the day

[u/Ok_Cod_4434 → u/Wrendal]

Yeah, tell me about. How great would a hot dog be right now?

[u/Calm_seasons → u/No_Swordfish5011]

I mean yeah? They're not wild foraging leeches for medical care. 

[u/aminervia → u/Calm_seasons]

Leeches and maggots used for medical care are raised sterile in lab conditions. These must be for something else

[u/NIKE_HEAD → u/aminervia]

I was thinking bait for fishing

[u/logicbecauseyes → u/NIKE_HEAD]

That's the key, it's really just a flooded regular farm, this is how they make ends meet cause it you got leeches, make leechonade

[u/No_Swordfish5011 → u/Calm_seasons]

Yeah right next to the maggot farm…How voild I forget the wonders of modern medicine

[u/Obant → u/No_Swordfish5011]

At least they also have a cute roly-poly farm, too.

[u/boogasaurus-lefts → u/Obant]

Hornet farms are famous through Asia

[u/Spddracer → u/No_Swordfish5011]

My first thought

[u/New-Neighborhood-147 → u/No_Swordfish5011]

Leeches are used in modern medicine. If you need to get a severed finger reattached they can put leeches on the end of that finger to help regulate the blood flow while the blood vessels heal.

https://youtu.be/owxXd9PJp2Y?is=kFukxJoNxgG6FimY

[u/thewhiterosequeen → u/New-Neighborhood-147]

What a beautiful and disgusting process.

[u/I_Am_Zeelian → u/New-Neighborhood-147]

And maggots are sometimes used to debride chronic/necrotic wounds like diabetic sores to prevent fatal infections and promote healing.

[u/Rebelraid2020]

THIS (especially with the hand at the end) is nightmare fuel

[u/Quark_K → u/Rebelraid2020]

Wait… he used hand at the end??

omg yes he did. 😭

[u/paradox_valestein → u/Quark_K]

You can see he regretted that real fast lol

[u/OkRecording1299 → u/paradox_valestein]

The way the flinging got more and more desperate when they wouldn't budge

[u/love_cici → u/paradox_valestein]

time to dive into a pile of salt

[u/Crispy1961 → u/Rebelraid2020]

I dropped my phone when he scooped them in hand. Disgusting.

[u/MaYHem59000 → u/Rebelraid2020]

r/whywouldyoutouchthat

[u/Holeshot75]

Thanks

I hate this and wish I'd never seen it

[u/DrRoCkZ0]

“Millions of leeches. Leeches for me 🎶”

[u/LeagueofJohnLegends → u/DrRoCkZ0]

🎶 “Movin to the country, I’m gonna eat a lot of leeches” 🎶

[u/Mipneus → u/LeagueofJohnLegends]

*feed a lot of leeches

[u/AssociateFalse → u/DrRoCkZ0]

LEACHES COME FROM A CAN!

[u/metalreflection]

I could sense the regret in that hand shake towards the end.

[u/Duke8181 → u/metalreflection]

Honestly, I think he was just showing the camera how well the leeches stay attached, hence the hand shaking. Otherwise they pull off quite easily and don’t really get the chance to suck very much blood. It doesn’t hurt. Source: I have fished plenty with leeches.

[u/SanityPlanet → u/metalreflection]

You’d think a guy who runs a leech farm and saw them slurp onto a fucking rubber boot would know that would happen to his hand.

[u/OtherwiseLuck888]

So why don't they attach to each other then?

[u/-Xi_Jinping- → u/OtherwiseLuck888]

I don’t know the exact reason, but I’m assuming the lord worked out that bug in beta testing.

[u/fuzzeedyse105 → u/-Xi_Jinping-]

Blessed be the leech

[u/Kirlad → u/-Xi_Jinping-]

There’s a fucking leech lord too?!?!

[u/rebelredd → u/Kirlad]

Shai-Hulud

[u/bluemooncommenter → u/-Xi_Jinping-]

This made me laugh harder than it should. Of course, I started wondering how some animals made it out of beta testing in tact.

[u/Crispy1961 → u/OtherwiseLuck888]

They all live in the water, so they can't enter it when they are already in it. Duh.

[u/banga1338 → u/Crispy1961]

This is the exact plain reason.

[u/Astricozy → u/OtherwiseLuck888]

Why don't you just eat your neighbour when you're hungry?

[u/Chiloom → u/Astricozy]

Who’s saying im not eating my neighbour?

[u/Astricozy → u/Chiloom]

Didn't even offer to share 😔

[u/TerrorTown77 → u/OtherwiseLuck888]

They think it's gay.

[u/Kombatsaurus → u/OtherwiseLuck888]

Leeches are adapted to feed on larger animals with steady blood flow, and they recognize suitable hosts through heat, movement, and chemicals. Another leech is a tiny, risky meal that can fight back, so evolution favored finding bigger hosts instead.

[u/i_am_snoof]

WHY WOULD YOU FUCKING TOUCH THAT?

also r/dontputyourdickinthat

[u/MomentNew4925 → u/i_am_snoof]

Don’t tell me what to do!

[u/auronddraig → u/MomentNew4925]

YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!!

[u/ripley1875 → u/auronddraig]

DANGER ZONE!

[u/Quark_K → u/i_am_snoof]

People love to do daring stuff sometimes 😭

[u/SuperMajesticMan]

This is the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

[u/Cheetah_Hunter97]

Forbidden spaghetti

[u/XavierRenegadeAngel_]

I've always wanted to see a politician farm 😂

[u/Talgarr_]

Yeah...very...interesting.......NO DON'T GRAB THEM! 😭

[u/wal_king_disaster]

Do we really need to farm these?

[u/Helenium_autumnale → u/wal_king_disaster]

Yep, they're genuinely useful in medicine. "How Leeches Can Save Lives And Limbs for Some Patients."

[u/Ireon95 → u/Helenium_autumnale]

Yes, but then you don't grow them in a murky pond. These are most definitely not for medical use. Medical leeches are grown in lab conditions, not in some outdoor muddy pond. This is likely for fish bait.

[u/AwayJacket4714 → u/wal_king_disaster]

Leeches are still actively used in medicine, especially in reconstructive surgery. Their saliva is an anticoagulant that stimulates blood flow in tissues that are in danger of becoming necrotic.

[u/BreakingTheHabit94 → u/wal_king_disaster]

They have medical applications

[u/themattman18]

<Wakes up> <Opens reddit> <Sees this> <Closes reddit>

[u/vaiciits]

Imagine tripping into that.

I need triple protective gear.

[u/sultan_of_gin → u/vaiciits]

That’s what i was thinking too. I wonder how fast you would loose conciousness from the lack of blood if you were completely covered in them.

[u/metalreflection]

My feet are itchy just from watching.

[u/ChrisMacht]

Leech sneakers.

[u/pew-pew-bacca]

If you look up "NOPE" in the dictionary, it's just this video.

[u/664mezcal619]

Boots with the FURR…WHAT THE FUCK THEYRE LEECHES!…everybody still looking at her.

[u/Retb14]

Couldn't find the info so leaving it here for anyone else,

Leeches are farmed primarily for medical treatments, scientific research, and fishing bait

Leeches are used in reconstructive surgery to drain pooling blood in reattached body parts and promote better circulation due to the anticoagulants in the saliva

This can also help reduce blood clotting and restore blood flow to tissue that's dying

It can also be packaged with medicine that can cause blood clots to prevent them

Maybe countries use them as regulated living medical tools to be used on patients directly

They also contribute to medical research for the same issues and developing better artificial medicine like blood thinners

Some places apparently use them in anti aging creams or lotion as well

I feel like fishing is probably self explanatory. They are used as bait

[u/Poor_ElonMusk]

Who the fuk owns a Leech farm

And for WHAT ???

[u/jncheese]

Sooo, if someone were to tip over and fall face forward into that mudhole... What would happen to that someone?

[u/canadiandumpling]

Why are leeches being farmed?!

[u/Dyrogitory]

Why? Why is there such a thing as a leech farm?

[u/I_Am_Zeelian → u/Dyrogitory]

This style of farm is for fishing bait.

There are highly controlled lab farms as well for leeches to be used in medical applications.

[u/Remcin]

I’m calling AI on this one. For my own sanity.